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Coastal Marine Zones [mzddmmyy]
Offshore Marine Zones [ozddmmyy]
High Seas Marine Zones [hzddmmyy]


Overview of Coastal, Offshore and High Seas Marine Zones
Detailed view of the Marine Zones and access to forecasts.
Detailed view of the Offshore Zones and access to forecasts.
Description Valid Date Available Version(s) Size (bytes) #Records Documentation
Coastal Marine Zones
Including the Great Lakes 		15 July 2009 Download Compressed Shapefile mz15jl09.zip 4,487,965 432 Change History Metadata
1 June 2010 Download Compressed Shapefile mz01jn10.zip 4,709,877 452
Offshore Marine Zones 2 June 2009 Download Compressed Shapefile oz02jn09.zip 189,883 33 Change History Metadata
High Seas Zones30 March 2009 Download Compressed Shapefile hz30mr09.zip 103,258 7 Change History Metadata

File Specifications:

Naming Convention: mz ddmmyy .shp/.shx/.dbf - where .shp, .shx, .dbf are the extensions of the 3 component files of the shapefile and .prj is the projection file.
Shapefile Type: polygon
Source: NWSI 10-302

Attributes:

field name type width,dec description
ID character 6 Marine Zone Identifier
WFO character 3 Assigned WFO (Office Identifier)
NAME character 250 Name of Marine Zone
LON numeric 10,5 Longitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]
LAT numeric 9,5 Latitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]

Comments: Due to increased lead time for implementation of offical changes, the current version and the new version of the shapefiles will not be available on this page.


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